Oh, Pansy

[wintercreek]

Did Pansy just offer Boot her father's jumper?

I swear, that girl just breaks my heart in the best possible way.

Comments

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

I don't know...
I mean, to cut up and use for foot coverings? I could believe it if she offered it to him to use as a jumper and keep himself warm, but I'm not sure I could see Pansy letting something of her father's be ruined like that.

[wintercreek]

Yeah, I read it as her offering it to him to wear rather than to cut up.

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

You may be right. I do think that Boot intends to wear Neville's scarf on his feet, and that he thought Pansy was offering the jumper for the same thing. But just because Boot interpreted the offer that way doesn't mean that's how it was meant.

[wintercreek]

Now I'm wondering if there's a moment coming where mutual misinterpretations become clear. How awkward for both of them if there is.

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

Also, as always, I could be wrong about Boot's thinking as well. I suppose that sort of disclaimer isn't really necessary in a community based largely on speculation and inference, but the fact that the authors of this work can read what we write does sort of constantly inspire me to be careful about making false assumptions.

And speaking of assumptions, Amycus Carrow (http://alt-terry.livejournal.com/7703.html?thread=42263#t42263) just posted, and I feel like his "If you feel you deserve them" is his way of laying a trap for Boot. Like, if he accepts the gift, he'll be punished for not knowing his place, etc. That would be wonderfully twisted and Slytherin of him, if true.

[wintercreek]

Oh, how creepy and awful of him! Not only does it look like a trap, it's also probably undermining whatever self-worth Boot is getting from his interactions with the students. :(

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

I'll give you creepy: I just friended alt_amycus, and he friended me back. Think he's keeping tabs on the Muggles?

[wintercreek]

Brrrrrrrr. (That was my shiver of creep-ification.) He's got an interesting, rather short friends list, doesn't he?

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

Yes. Either he's working rather slowly at friending others or... there are some odd folks in that set (besides me): Hannah, Ginny, Luna? He's watching the senior Weasleys, too, so he's may be watching the Muggle-lovers (but he's skipped Ron). He's got Myrtle friended -- that could be a surveillance thing, too, since she reports if something odd happens in her loo. He's ignoring the Mudbloods who aren't his creatures. Interesting.

[alt-player.livejournal.com]

http://alt-amycus.livejournal.com/988.html

[alt-player.livejournal.com]

An incorrect action on my part. Bloody pigeons. Every time they twitter that happens.

-Amycus' player

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. It was a bit of excitement in my evening, I'll admit. (Life in the camps isn't all that thrilling.)

[alt_moderator]

Have my babies!

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

Well. My! That's a bit more excitement than I can handle all in an instant. Could I answer you properly after I've had a bit of a lie down?

[wordsworthy.livejournal.com]

Looks like boot just turned the offer down (http://alt-terry.livejournal.com/7703.html?thread=41751#t41751).

Note his exchange with Hermione, too (http://alt-terry.livejournal.com/7703.html?thread=44055#t44055). Maybe he's afraid the offer is giving him too much unwanted attention.